Abstract
Introduction: Despite being aware of
the importance of nurses’ role in providing clinical training to nursing
students, studies show that sufficient research has not yet been conducted on
the experience of clinical nurses who are engaged in training nursing
students outside their normal working hours. The present study aim to
describe the experience of these nurses who are training outside their
routine working hours.
Methods: This study was conducted
using descriptive-phenomenology method. Twelve nurses was participated in
this research. Data were collected using purposive sampling method and face
to face interviews based on nurses’ real life experience of students’
learning in clinical settings through answering open-ended questions. Spiegel
burg analysis method was used to analyze the data.
Results: The result of data
analysis was the derivation of four themes and eight sub-themes. Themes
included "nurses as teaching sources", "changes in the balance
of doing routine tasks", "professional enthusiasm", and
"nurses as students' professional socialization source of
inspiration". Sub-themes included "efficient education",
"poor education", "support", "interference in the
role," "self-efficacy development", "inner
satisfaction", "positive imaging" and "being a
model".
Conclusion: It is necessary that
academic centers plan for teaching nurses working on a contractual basis in
the field of the evaluation method and various methods of teaching. The
findings also suggested the development of individual self-efficacy in
clinical nurses who train students.